Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Kyrgyzstan and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Peter & Gordon to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Wells record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Residents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Interpol,
China Crisis,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Avey Tare,
Dave Gahan,
Wally Richardson,
Neu!,
Suburban Knight,
Stockholm Monsters,
Adolescents,
Siglo XX,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bobby Byrd,
cv313,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Pere Ubu,
Oneida,
Parry Music,
The Gladiators,
Rekid,
Grandmaster Flash,
Schoolly D,
the Germs,
Country Teasers,
Danielle Patucci,
Crooked Eye,
Pagans,
KRS-One,
AZ,
The Fortunes,
Arcadia,
L. Decosne,
Soft Cell,
Thompson Twins,
MDC,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Warren Ellis,
Sun City Girls,
Quantec,
Flash Fearless,
The New Christs,
Sonic Youth,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Model 500,
Trumans Water,
The Last Poets,
Skriet,
the Soft Cell,
The Young Rascals,
Section 25,
Jacob Miller,
Fluxion,
Johnny Clarke,
Cluster,
Frankie Knuckles,
Supertramp,
Aural Exciters,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ultravox,
Alton Ellis,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Malaria!,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.